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“Is your brother really such a surly bastard, they ask. Of course not; inside, he’s a teddy bear, say I . . . and then he opens his mouth.”

Battle Royal (Palace Insiders, #1) by Lucy Parker

October 25, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

A rom-com set in the dual baking worlds of a televised baking competition, and a competition for a bakery to earn the chance to make the cake for a Royal Wedding. Sylvie and Dominic clashed instantly when they met four years earlier on Operation Cake. Her glitter and color infused creations rubbed him the wrong way, a baker who prefers to bake in varying shades of cream. He’s a famously cranky judge, and she was a contestant. Their rivalry culminated in one of Sylvie’s bakes […]

Not pure fluff, but very, very good.

The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3) by Helen Hoang

October 25, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I liked the first two books in this series, but this one is on another level. It’s very personal and you can tell, even before you get to the end and the author’s note where she straight out says that the book is half memoir. With this book, she was Working Through Some Shit. However, just because you write what you know as an author doesn’t mean that you will write something good or compelling, but Hoang has definitely managed to do that, and I […]

A funny book about racism — get the audio if you can!

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

October 25, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

A good time, despite the subject matter. Amber and Lacey make hearing stories about racism simultaneously entertaining and infuriating. Laughing while angry! The best example of what this book does is probably the story that they open it with, for good reason. It involves Lacey being at a store and paying with a check (back when people did that). The cashier was a white teenager. Lacey had checks with famous and historically notable Black people on them. When she pulled out her checkbook the check […]

“We don’t live in a series of plot points. We should be thankful for that. We should realize how lucky we are.” #CBRBINGO – Home

How Lucky by Will Leitch

October 25, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I was a bit nervous for this one! We’ve got a middle-aged white guy writing from the POV of a protagonist with a pretty specific disability (SMA, a degenerative disease*) that he doesn’t share, and I wasn’t familiar with Leitch as a writer, but this was the only BOTM the month it came out that interested me, so I took a chance, and I’m glad I did! I thought the whole thing was very sensitively done, and I thought Daniel ended up being a great […]

“Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.”

Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4) by C.S. Lewis

October 22, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

This book was always my favorite of the series. Something about the kids coming back to Narnia only a year later, but it having been hundreds, maybe thousands of years in the meantime, and their former castle of Cair Paravel now a ruin they have to unearth, and the quest to reclaim Narnia from ill-doers was just so very appealing to me as a kid and young adult. A large part of my affection for it still exists in the many, many re-reads I did […]

An okay romance.

The Dating Playbook (The Boyfriend Project, #2) by Farrah Rochon

October 22, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I was pretty into this at first but then my interest waned like a third of the way through and never really came back. Certainly it didn’t help that I was reading another stellar romance* at the same time and this one doesn’t hold up to it. This wasn’t bad, though! Just not great. *The Heart Principle, in case you were curious. This is the second book in Rochon’s adult romance series, following The Boyfriend Project, which I also generally liked but had some issues […]

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“Is your brother really such a surly bastard, they ask. Of course not; inside, he’s a teddy bear, say I . . . and then he opens his mouth.”

Not pure fluff, but very, very good.

A funny book about racism — get the audio if you can!

“We don’t live in a series of plot points. We should be thankful for that. We should realize how lucky we are.” #CBRBINGO – Home

“Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.”

An okay romance.

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